Bristol-based artist, illustrator, designer, photographer and all-round talented bastard 45RPM made this kit-bashed Goofy wrestling figure for the Streets Of Beige 'Plastik Schmack!' bootleg toy exhibition. We especially like the card back depicting Goofy kicking the shit out of Pluto, egged on by the rest of the Club House gang!

'Plastik Schmack!' is the third Streets Of Beige exhibition, and their second foray into the increasingly prominent bootleg toy scene. They released TMNT homage, 'Nobody Likes Leonardo' with RichT & Goodleg Toys earlier this year. Alongside 'Goofe', the exhibition featured a freakish array of mangled characters, including several nods towards 'The Simpsons'... An extra special "Swag Hipster" edition of Ash Davies' 'Bartholio', Andrew Richmond's 'Bad-Ass Grampa', and a tribute to Action Bronson customised from a Comic Book Guy figure by SOB x Bernard Rollins!

'Goofe' is still available to purchase through the SOB online store, priced £100.

'Company of Parrots' is the online retail outlet for the uber-cool publishing platform 'It's Nice That', and their magazine publication 'Printed Pages'. Over the years they have been able to commission some brilliant creatives in the production of exclusive items, including this, their latest collaboration with Eike König and HORT studio.

HORT are currently celebrating over 20 years of genre-blurring graphic design work with an exhibition at London's KK Outlet. This momentous achievement has been marked with the release of three specially-commissioned T-shirts, the highlight for us being this delightfully creepy amalgamation of Mickey Mouse and Pinocchio.

Like some sort of dirty protest on the walls of a Disney World jail, the T-shirt depicts a cheeky mouse with a huge nose smeared in black on an otherwise pristine white cotton tee.

Before embarking on his career in animation, Steven Mertens was a session bass player with The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green and Here We Go Magic, amongst many others. This background in music has allowed Steven to seamlessly connect his stop-motion skills with numerous musical collaborations, including videos for Nickel Creek, Skaters, The Chapin Sisters, Deca, Streets of Laredo and Boogarins.

His latest animated music video is his second outing with the UK pop-punk outfit The Subways. Made to accompany the track 'I'm In Love And It's Burning In My Soul', the paper cut-out stop motion animation is a melange of hearts, fire and hypnotic eyes, all mashed together in blur of surreal romance.

Over the last decade, Chad VanGaalen has been producing his own brand of spookily weird music, drawings, modified instruments, animation and performances. He frequently makes his own album artwork and has even animated music videos to accompany several of his songs, including 'Clinically Dead', 'Flower Gardens', 'Red Hot Drops', 'Molten Light', and his newest release... 'Monster'!

The disturbingly freakish music video features a bestiary of nightmarish creatures from deformed fetuses clawing at their own eye sockets, to a moss covered toad-like creature vomiting living purple goo!

Unfortunately, it seems all the major studios publish an 'Art of...' book to accompany every film they release purely as a cash-cow marketing necessity! Whilst the concept artwork is always undeniably stunning, there are so many to books/films to choose from it has inevitably all become a bit samey and stale.

It is hugely refreshing to see a publication of this nature delving into a tiny British animation production company, like Smallfilms, with the same visual indulgence as we've come to expect from the major studios. Jonny Trunk has trawled through the extensive Smallfilms archive, and presented the collection of lovingly crafted puppets, cut-out, props, artwork and studio relics, as if detailing some much-admired 20th Century art movement.

Fittingly released to coincided with the revival of Smallfilms (now with Oliver's son Daniel Postgate at the helm) and the announcement that The Clangers will be returning to our screens in 2015!

"Working from a barn in Kent, Postgate and Firmin produced some of the best-loved children's television of the 1960s and 1970s, including 'Bagpuss', 'The Clangers', 'Ivor The Engine' and 'Noggin The Nog'. This book presents the Smallfilms archive - the puppets and cut-outs from these series, along with insights into how they were made. It's a book full of pipe cleaners, cotton wool, wire and ping-pong balls, and celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of two artists who shaped the childhoods of a generation."

London-based freelance animator Steve Cutts has released a humourous new animated short, titled 'Where Are They Now?' in which we catch up with some 1980s animation icons, long after their heyday prime, and the stark reality of their current lives.

Narrated by a now massively overweight Jessica Rabbit, lamenting the difficulties of living with a gambling addicted rabbit, we also encounter Mumm-Ra and Lion-O bickering in a discount supermarket, Skeletor working in a call center, Inspector Gadget selling the Big Issue, and Optimus Prime serving up greasy fried chicken.

It's not all bad though... He-Man and Man-At-Arms now live a life of luxury in a sparkly pink Castle Grayskull!

Taken from their recent album 'Big Weather,' Pittsburgh’s 1,2,3, have unveiled a new animated music video to accompany the track 'Big Weather II.'

Animated by Sophie Koko Gate, the visuals tell the story of a melancholic man and his deceased dog, twinned with other more surreal instances of stormy occurrences... We see a ghostly apparition rise from a water-damaged television, a sexual encounter between two cockroaches and a clumsy grope on an awkward first date!

Contemporary artist Imbue, who recently relocated to Birmingham, just held his first Brummie-based exhibition, hosted by independent clothing brand and lifestyle retailer PROVIDE.

Alongside 9 new mini-prints, featuring animation inspired imagery typical of Imbue, PROVIDE unveiled an exclusive T-shirt produced to accompany the exhibition. The design features an anatomical dissection of Disney's Thumper, first seen in Imbue's Artwork-A-Day series of unique screen prints back in 2012.

The T-shirt is limited to a meager 50 units, screen printed locally in black on a marl grey crew neck Tee, and available now through the PROVIDE online store priced £25.00

Ryan Humphrey, instigator of the spectacular ‘Bartkira’ project, recently implored people to submit their work to a collaborative ‘zine, featuring a wide variety of Studio Ghibli inspired illustration. The 46 page, A4, full colour publication is visual triumph, depicting various iconic characters from Ghibli films throughout the studio’s history.

Fully conceived by Takeshi Tsunehashi, director, producer and animator of his Tokyo-based studio DESIGNERS APARTMENT, ‘Lost Forest’ continues his homage to the ethereal beauty of nature. Like his previous animated short 'Forest', this new piece takes us on a surreal nature ramble through a simultaneously lush and decaying world in a metaphorical representation of life itself.

Jake Portman of Not Actual Size has released a highly amusing animated short, titled 'Robot King.'

Inspired by the 1970s anime shows he watched growing up, like 'Gatchaman' and 'Voltron', 'Robot King' imagines the terrible disaster that would probably ensue should you really give control of an all-powerful robot to a group of teenagers!

Frederic Siegel, an animator & illustrator currently studying 2D animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland, recently animated the official music video for Murphy Left and their new track '2 Magnete.' The wonderfully pared-down visual style, composed exclusively in red, yellow & blue, perfectly correlates with the mellow, minimalist harmony of the track.

In this self-initiated animated short from Laura Carton, we see a young boy lying in a bathtub playing with a toy boat. He dreams of his father, unseen since he last set sail, and his nautical adventures aboard the 'Dauntless Sally.'